Posted on 02/13/2018 6:45:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Adviser to Khamenei says aid collectors for Palestinians sought to deploy reptiles whose skin 'attracted atomic waves'
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The former chief-of-staff of Iran’s armed forces said Tuesday that Western spies had used lizards to “attract atomic waves” and spy on his country’s nuclear program.
It was the latest in a long line of incidents of Western countries, including Israel, being accused of deploying secret agents from the animal kingdom.
Hassan Firuzabadi, senior military adviser to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was responding to questions from local media on the recent arrest of environmentalists.
He said he did not know the details of the cases, but that the West had often used tourists, scientists and environmentalists to spy on Iran.
“Several years ago, some individuals came to Iran to collect aid for Palestine… We were suspicious of the route they chose,” he told the reformist ILNA news agency.
“In their possessions were a variety of reptile desert species like lizards, chameleons… We found out that their skin attracts atomic waves and that they were nuclear spies who wanted to find out where inside the Islamic Republic of Iran we have uranium mines and where we are engaged in atomic activities,” he said.
Firuzabadi said Western spy agencies had “failed every time.”
His comments came after news that a leading Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, Kavous Seyed Emami, had committed suicide in prison after he was arrested along with other members of his wildlife NGO last month.
Several spying allegations involving various creatures have been leveled against Israel over the past years.
In January 2016, Lebanese residents captured a griffon vulture wearing an Israeli tracking device, but released it upon realizing that the transmitter strapped to the bird was intended for scientific research rather than espionage.
Several months earlier, Hamas claimed to have caught a dolphin wearing Israeli spying equipment.
Twice in recent years, Turkish media has highlighted allegations that birds tagged with Israeli university tracking devices were on espionage missions.
In 2012, an eagle with an Israeli tag in Sudan was captured and alleged to be as a Mossad spy.
Two years earlier, an Egyptian official said Israel-controlled sharks may have been involved in a number of attacks on tourists in the Red Sea.
Good morning, ArGee. I hope your Monday lasts only one day.
News Flash: Man terribly done to death by healthy breakfast
“The cereal just went and grabbed the spoon before it.. it.. it started trying to eat him with the spoon!” said shocked bystander.
And there you have it folks, we have a bonafide cereal killer loose!
Wowser.
I was putting a jigsaw together to bide my time while waiting for FR to come back to the surface, and, now I see I was very late. At any rate, I’m outta here, as I have to get up early for a blood test.
So. I’ll see all y’all tomorrow!
Hope you have a good night. Swim meet was rained out.
That little floof blends right in with the leaves. Sweet little face.
I need to take something with me this morning for after the blood test, but I don’t know what. There is nothing here that is portable. Maybe I’ll stop at the Arco on my way out of town.
It would be nice if I could get over being so tired all the time, but that’s what relapses do.
(With all the photos that have been posted on FB of the wedding and prewedding, there are none of me. Things that make you go “hmmmm.” I told you I didn’t fit in, didn’t I?)
That just goes to show that Facebook isn’t life. Your grandson and his wife know you were there in Real Life, which is the only one that counts.
Only the catz and I are confronting Tuesday, so far. I heard Tom go to the bathroom and return to his den. *wait* There’s more water running ...
Everyone needs to get up this morning and go over the schedule, which is messy but workable IF all the moving objects get themselves organized.
Best wishes on the drive!
My grandson and his new bride will be in St George only until she finishes school and then they will move to AR, which I think is a bad move because of his family. They hate Mormons and they are very vocal about it.
The bed is made, the steroid had and the clothes that were hug to dry yesterday have been taken off the racks and are ready to be folded, and the ones that are on hangers are put away.
I need to grab a bottle of water before I go.
Do you mean his mother’s family? I can see how that would be awkward. Does he have a job in AR?
Yes, his mother’s family. They are all Southern Baptists, and I know, without a doubt in my military dependent’s mind that THAT gramma was the reason her daughter was forced to kick my son to the curb. She had an affair with a man while she was married to my son, and it was only after 16 or 17 years that she married him. (I told my son that Nellie’s mother was probably in bed with them throughout the marriage. When they realized he wasn’t going to convert, they made his life a living hell.)
Anyway, James can probably get the job back that he had before he went on his mission, but my heart tells me that is not going to be a happy place for Abbie, and if Abbie isn’t happy, James is going to be miserable.
While he was on his mission, his other gramma wrote letters that were disparaging of the Church, the mission James was on and even the Lord, because it’s “not the same Jesus.” I wrote trying to uplift him and encourage him to be the best missionary he could be.
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Back from the blood draw. They took eight vials. I couldn’t make a contribution to the last test required, so they gave me the stuff to bring home and drop off at the lab here. When it opens at 0700.
Maybe tomorrow.
I think it was only one day. Since I posted and then FR crashed it’s hard to tell what yesterday was.
I hope it wasn’t my fault. I’d hate to be another Darks.
You owe Mondays an apology.
My AAA membership is due, but thankfully, payday is around the corner! I’ll get it paid then. I hope.
And I just sorted my pills, so now, I need to go take the first dose of the day. Ungh.
I think I should print out my budget while I’m thinking of it.
Exactly why FR collapsed...
I can’t say as I blame it. I can only take so much of Hillary myself before I collapse.
Holy cow! I knew they were big, but...but... they could take me away like Calgon! WOW!
Do not play paper, rock, scissors with these birds....they cheat, talons win every time.
"It's coming this way. It's as big as a house!"
"It's still coming!"
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